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People Are Saying Really Nice Things About Little Shop of HorrorsAt the Dallas Music Hall in Fair Park August 10 to 21“A FLAWLESS NEW STAGING OF A BRILLIANT MUSICAL!” “Giant killer plant conquers Broadway!”--Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
Tickets to Little Shop of Horrors are on sale now, priced from $11--$75, available at The Box Office at 542 Preston Royal Shopping Center with no added service charge. For groups of 20 or more, call 214-426-GROUP. For more information, call 214-691-7200. Tickets are also available at all Ticketmaster locations, including Fiesta, Foley’s, Wherehouse Music, Tower Records, and The Majestic Theatre Box Office, 1925 Elm Street; by phone at 214-631-ARTS; or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Service charges will be added for Ticketmaster purchases. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, the show Clive Barnes of the New York Post dubbed “wondrously entertaining,” features book and lyrics by the late Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin) and includes such well-known musical numbers as “Somewhere That's Green,” “Suddenly Seymour” and the title song. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is the story of Seymour Krelbourn, a meek Skid Row florist who makes a Faustian pact with a tiny plant in order to win the heart of Audrey, the girl he loves. While Audrey doesn’t notice the romance blooming between them, she does recognize the moneymaking potential of the exotic little plant. Soon money pours in and Seymour becomes a celebrity, but behind the glamour and fame lies a secret Seymour can’t reveal – this strange and unusual plant’s favorite food is…human blood. As the plant grows, its demands for food grow too, and Seymour starts to suspect that the plant might have an agenda larger than light and soil. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS features a spectacular, planet-panicking plant designed by The Jim Henson WorkshopTM and Martin P. Robinson. “Sexy, smooth, witty, ruthless, and hungry, the plant dominates this sharp and funny revival,” says the New York Post. Mr. Robinson previously designed the plant used in the original 1982 Off-Broadway production. Audrey II, as the bloodthirsty puppet is called, features a main pod the size of a Mini Cooper and has the ability to rise 23 feet into the air. Orchids are the inspiration for Audrey II’s color scheme, more specifically, a Venus Ladyslipper. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS features scenic design by Scott Pask, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design by Donald Holder, sound design by T. Richard Fitzgerald, music supervision by Michael Kosarin and music direction by Henry Aronson. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS had its world premiere at the WPA Theatre on May 6, 1982. It subsequently transferred to Off-Broadway's Orpheum Theatre on July 27, 1982, where it ran for an unprecedented 2,209 performances. Little Shop of Horrors will play the Music Hall at Fair Park, presented by Dallas Summer Musicals, Tues., August 10 through Sat. , August 21. The performance schedule will be as follows: 8 p.m. Tues. Aug. 10 Preview performance 8 p.m. Wed. Aug. 11 Official Opening Night 8 p.m. Thurs. Aug. 12 8 p.m. Fri. Aug. 13 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. Aug. 14 2 & 8 p.m. Sun. Aug. 15
8 p.m. Mon. Aug. 16 8 p.m. Tues. Aug. 17 8 p.m. Wed. Aug. 18 2 & 8 p.m. Thurs. Aug. 19 8 p.m. Fri. Aug. 20 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. Aug. 21 (no performance Sunday, Aug. 22) August 31-Sept. 12, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns to the Music Hall. One of the most popular shows in DSM’s 64-year history, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of the Biblical story is as colorful as Joseph’s coat of many colors. The dazzling new touring version is also a co-production of DSM. Sept. 28-Oct. 17, Jesus Christ Superstar, this first masterpiece from the legendary writing team of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, was originally produced in 1971. The magnificent new production proves this musical is as timely and relevant as ever. Jesus Christ Superstar will be the 2004 State Fair of Texas musical. Season sponsors for Dallas Summer Musicals are American Express Company, The Dallas Morning News, WFAA TV, 94.9 KLTY, WWW.FREEMANAUTO.COM, and American Airlines. For more information about Dallas Summer Musicals, please call 214-421-5678, or visit their website at www.dallassummermusicals.org. Book and Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Music By ALAN MENKEN Based on a film by Roger Corman, Screenplay by Charles Griffith Choreographed by KATHLEEN MARSHALL Directed by JERRY ZAKS CREATIVE BIOGRAPHIES HOWARD ASHMAN (Book and Lyrics). A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Howard Ashman moved to New York City in 1974 and began writing plays while working as an editor in a publishing house. His work attracted attention and he became WPA Theatre’s artistic director in 1977. In 1982, Ashman collaborated with composer Alan Menken on the musical Little Shop of Horrors. The team of Ashman and Menken later shifted their focus to movies creating some of the songs for The Little Mermaid (1989). One of the songs, “Under the Sea,” earned a 1989 Academy Award. Ashman then wrote the lyrics for the songs in the Disney animated films Beauty and the Beast (1991), winning a second Academy Award for the title song. He turned out more songs for a third Disney animated film, Aladdin (1992), before his death from AIDS on March 14, 1991 at the age of 40. ALAN MENKEN (Music). Stage credits include: Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol, King David, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Real Life Funnies, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Weird Romance and a stage musical adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame produced in Berlin. Stage awards include: Best Score - Tony Nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award; Best Musical – N.Y. Drama Critics Award, Drama Desk Award, London Evening Standard Award, Olivier Award, Dora Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Drama Critics Award. Film credits include: The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Newsies, Pocahontas, Life with Mikey, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules. Film awards include: four Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards for Best Score, four Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards for Best Song (“Under the Sea,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “A Whole New World,” “Colors of the Wind”), Other notable achievements: ten Grammy Awards, including Best Song of the Year (“A Whole New World”), a Billboard #1 Album (“Pocahontas”) and #1 Single (“A Whole New World”) and BMI's Richard Kirk Award. Other credits include: The score for “Lincoln” (ABC Mini-Series), the songs “My Christmas Tree” from Home Alone 2 and “The Measure of a Man” from Rocky V. Upcoming: a new animated musical, Home on the Range, a stage adaptation of The Little Mermaid, and a new musical based on the Damon Runyon short story “Little Pinks” entitled The Ballad of Little Pinks. JERRY ZAKS (Director) has directed the New York productions of: A Bad Friend, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Guys and Dolls, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me a Tenor, The House of Blue Leaves, Anything Goes, The Front Page, A Funny Thing Happened…, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, 45 Seconds from Broadway, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Assassins, The Foreigner, Wenceslas Square, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Sister Mary Ignatius..., Baby with the Bathwater and Beyond Therapy. He also directed the award-winning film Marvin’s Room starring Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton. Mr. Zaks served as Resident Director at Lincoln Center Theater from 1986 -1990 and is a founding member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. He has received four Tony awards, four Drama Desks, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, an Obie, and an NAACP Image Award nomination for his national tour of The Tap Dance Kid. He also directs episodes for the long running hit comedies “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “Frasier.” A graduate of Dartmouth with an MFA from Smith, he received the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater in 1994, and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Dartmouth in 1999. Since 1990 he has been proudly affiliated with Jujamcyn Theaters. KATHLEEN MARSHALL (Choreographer) directed and choreographed the Broadway revival of Wonderful Town and forthcoming Pajama Gane; choreographed the Broadway productions of Follies (Outer Critics Circle Award nom.); Seussical; Kiss Me, Kate (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Astaire Award noms.); Ring ‘Round the Moon (LCT); 1776 (Roundabout) and Swinging on a Star (Drama Desk nom.). In the West End, she choreographed Kiss Me, Kate (Olivier Award nom.). She directed and choreographed Carnival, Hair, Wonderful Town and Babes in Arms for City Center Encores!, where she was the Artistic Director for four seasons. Off-Broadway, she directed and choreographed Saturday Night (Second Stage), the New York premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s first musical, and choreographed Violet (Playwright’s Horizons) and As Thousands Cheer (Drama Dept). She choreographed the national tours of Kiss Me, Kate and Sunset Blvd. and directed a reunion concert of the original cast of Merrily We Roll Along for Musical Theatre Works. She recently choreographed “The Music Man” starring Matthew Broderick for ABC/Disney. The Jim Henson Company (Puppet Design) an established leader in family entertainment for more than 45 years, is a multimedia production company; one of the top character licensors in the industry; a leading publisher of children’s books and home to Jim Henson Television, Jim Henson Pictures, Jim Henson Interactive, Jim Henson Home Entertainment and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™. The Company is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices and production facilities in New York and London. www.henson.com. MARTIN P. ROBINSON (Puppet Design) has been a professional puppeteer since discovering that it was the perfect link between acting and sculpture. A 1974 graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he has won Emmys for his performances as Snuffleupagus, Telly Monster, Slimey the Worm and the “Yip-Yip” Martians on Sesame Street. Martin designed, built and performed the plant in the original Off-Broadway production of Little Shop for which he received a Drama Desk Award and a LA Drama Critics Award. SCOTT PASK (Set Design). Credits include the upcoming Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles; Take Me Out; Nine (revival), Urinetown, Tales from Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse, London), Neil LaBute’s Bash in N.Y., L.A. and the Almeida Theatre in London, national tours of Spirit, Godspell (2000-2001 production), The Dumbwaiter/Zoo Story (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Off-Broadway: The Mineola Twins (Roundabout, Co-Design, 1999 Lortel Award, ATW Henry Hewes Award), The Beginning of August (Atlantic Theatre Co.), Refuge (Playwrights Horizon), Slanguage, The Gimmick, Love’s Fowl (NYTW), The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Donkey Show, Boys Don’t Wear Lipstick. Also The Way of the World, Richard III (Yale Rep.), Alliance Theatre Co., Portland Center Stage, Lincoln Center New Visions, Joyce Theater, BAM. WILLIAM IVEY LONG (Costume Design) currently has five shows running on Broadway: Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk Awards), The Producers (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards) and first national tour, Cabaret New York, Australia, Chicago New York, London, Melbourne, Vienna, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Moscow. Other credits include Thou Shalt Not, 45 Seconds from Broadway, The Music Man, Annie Get Your Gun, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Swing!, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Steel Pier, 1776, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Crazy for You (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Guys and Dolls (Drama Desk Award), A Christmas Carol, Assassins (Obie Award), Lend Me a Tenor (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Nine (Tony, Drama Desk, Maharam Awards), Robert Wilson's Hamletmachine, Bernstein's A Quiet Place and Trouble in Tahiti, The Lost Colony, Vienna State Opera, LaScala, Houston Grand Opera, the Kennedy Center. DONALD HOLDER (Lighting Design). Broadway credits include Movin’ Out, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2003 revival), Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Lion King (1998 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle awards), King Hedley II, Juan Darien (Tony and Drama Desk noms), The Green Bird, Hughie, Bells Are Ringing, Holiday, Voices in the Dark, Eastern Standard and The Boy From Oz . Off-Broadway: A Man of No Importance, Everett Beekin, Jitney, Sight Unseen, Three Days of Rain, Strike Up the Band, Communicating Doors , The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Spunk, Avenue X, Jeffrey, Sondheim’s Saturday Night and others. T. RICHARD FITZGERALD (Sound Design). 1993/94 Drama Desk Award nom.: Outstanding Sound Design for Beauty and the Beast. 1996 Theatre L.A. Ovation Awards nom.: Best Sound Design (Larger Theatre) for An Inspector Calls. 2000 Lucille Lortel Award nom.: Best Sound Design Off-Broadway for 4 Guys Named Jose. Broadway sound design credits: Annie, 42nd Street, Zorba, The King and I, An Inspector Calls, Translations, Dancing at Lughnasa, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, Singin' in the Rain, Show Boat, Brigadoon, The Dresser, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Sunshine Boys, Freak, Electra, Rocky Horror Show, Sexaholix, Broadway on Broadway. HENRY ARONSON (Music Director) has been the Music Director of Rent, The Rocky Horror Show and Starmites on Broadway, and Off-Broadway’s 3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down; Associate Conductor of Saturday Night Fever and Parade (B’way). Other New York M.D. credits include Playwrights Horizons, Naked Angels and La Mama ETC, regional M.D. credits include A Fine and Private Place at Goodspeed, Animal Fair at the Denver Center, Heart’s Desire at the Cleveland Playhouse, Falsettos at Hartford Stage, Fanny Hackabout-Jones at Long Wharf, Mail at the Pasadena Playhouse, and A…My Name Is Still Alice at the Old Globe. He has composed and arranged for the Family Channel and Nickelodeon, written orchestrations for Baryshnikov & Co., and orchestrated the full-length Pirates! ballet for the Queensland (Australia) Ballet. THE ROUTH • FRANKEL • VIERTEL • BARUCH GROUP (Producer). Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel and Steven Baruch have produced and general managed a wide range of plays and musicals on and off Broadway, in London and on tour for the past 18 years. Currently: Hairspray, The Producers and Stomp. Previous productions include Swing!, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Weir, A Funny Thing Happened..., Angels in America, Driving Miss Daisy, Penn & Teller, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Oleanna, Mnemonic, The Cocktail Hour, Love Letters, Marvin's Room, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Forever Tango, Damn Yankees, Jeffrey, Song of Singapore, Later Life and others. Their shows have been awarded 31 Tonys, 27 Drama Desk Awards, 20 Outer Critics Awards, four Grammys and two Pulitzers. They are the operators of the Arts Theatre in London's West End. |
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now, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, the classic musical based on the 1960 Roger
Corman film, is coming to conquer Dallas, with an all-new production
directed by Jerry Zaks and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. This
production opened on Broadway October 2003, and now LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
is making house calls, including a stop at the Music Hall in Fair Park from
August 10-21. 